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title: Determine the duration of hand-washing with soap and water ordinaril… — Germs, the immune system and hand-wash… · tree and pragmatics
description: Determine the duration of hand-washing with soap and water ordinarily recommended. Exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mova's choice was w
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# Exam question 4 · Germs, the immune system and hand-washing

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Determine the duration of hand-washing with soap and water ordinarily recommended.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** determine, recommend · **To what, where:** duration, water

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This is exam question 4 of lesson 30 «Germs, the immune system and hand-washing» of the medicine course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/medicine/30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing/#e4).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:e4:1
# text = Determine the duration of hand-washing with soap and water ordinarily recommended.
1	Determine	determine	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	washing	washing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	soap	soap	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	ordinarily	ordinarily	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | imperative | you *not said here* | the duration of hand washing with soap and water |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duration=Topic |
| 2 | **recommend** | participle |  | water *not said here* |  |  |  | ordinarily *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Approximately five minutes

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:e4:o1:1
# text = Approximately five minutes
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Approximately two seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:e4:o2:1
# text = Approximately two seconds
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Approximately twenty seconds

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:e4:o3:1
# text = Approximately twenty seconds
1	Approximately	approximately	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	seconds	second	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
No minimum duration is recommended

```conllu
# sent_id = question:medicine:30-germs-the-immune-system-and-hand-washing:e4:o4:1
# text = No minimum duration is recommended
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
2	minimum	minimum	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	duration	duration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	recommended	recommend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recommend** | present · passive |  | no minimum duration |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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